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閉鎖性海域や沿岸域は、古来その自然的特徴や豊かな生態系により、人びとの活動の場となり、文化を育むなど人類に多大の恩恵をもたらせてきました。しかしながら、近年海面上昇や台風等の自然の力の増大など気候変動の影響が顕著になってきており、沿岸域はこれらの影響を最も受けやすい地域となっています。このため、気候変動に対する取組として、地方や国レベルから国際的にも、緩和策のみならず適応策の重要性が指摘され、その検討が進められています。また、アジア地域に代表されるように、沿岸域は人口の集中する地域であり、今後もその傾向は顕著になると見込まれています。 この様な背景から、沿岸域管理は、環境、防災、利用等について沿岸の陸域、海域を一体的にとらえたものとして...

Asian countries are building domestic institutions in response to climate change at both the international and domestic levels. Many countries have adopted the inter-agency coordination mechanism (IACM) as a national institutional approach to adjust the functions of various governmental agencies to tackle climate change. This article compares and...

Remarks: DNA Technical Workshop 13 January, 2011, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

In the Asia-Pacific region, millions of people live within or dwell near forests. For many of them, their wellbeing is dependent upon access to forest lands and forest resources, yet their customary rights and rights to basic human needs are often denied by national forest regulatory frameworks. This report brings together four studies that...

Using China’s environmental statistical data set for the period 2001e2006, this paper presents an extensive empirical analysis of the relationships among citizens’ environmental complaints, pollution intensities, and socio-economic characteristics. We found that exposure to harmful pollutants significantly influence people’s complaint behaviors...

This paper discusses environmental complaints made by citizens living close to industrial polluters in China. Data collected from a questionnaire survey in Suzhou City is used for the analysis. The results confirm a marginal level of citizen environmental complaints in the study area at present. Meaningful findings include the fact that citizens...